The regulatory and legal landscape surrounding applied behavior analysis has become increasingly complex. For behavior analysts, understanding legal rights and obligations is no longer optional.
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Join Free →More and more, today's complex regulatory environment calls for a practical understanding of legal rights and obligations relating to ABA practice. Ensuring appropriate documentation, streamlining appeals processes, eliminating improper limits on services not only meets your client needs, but improves your bottom line while also advancing the profession as a whole. This session will provide you with information to jump start enhancements to your own practice and a framework for collective public policy actions to improve ABA throughout the state of Louisiana. Learning Objectives: 1. Be able to provide at least two examples of how state insurance mandates, federal mental health parity law or nondiscrimination law relate to practice in accordance with professional standards. 2. Be able to cite at least two provisions of the BACB Ethics code that relate to insurer documentation and medical necessity policies. 3. Be able to identify at least two bodies of law that prohibit quantitative limits on ABA coverage. 4. Be able to identify at least 2 methods by which providers can improve documentation compliance.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | Ethics |
Dan Unumb is an attorney and the parent of a child with autism. As President of the Autism Legal Resource Center, a national law and consulting firm, he represents professional associations, autism service providers, and individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families seeking access to services and has briefed autism issues in state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Dan previously served as Executive Director of the Autism Speaks Legal Resource Center. Before beginning full-time autism advocacy, Dan was the Director of Litigation for South Carolina Legal Services, a 10-office, statewide legal aid program. He has served as an adjunct professor in Legal Writing and Advocacy at George Washington University Law School and the Charleston School of Law, and as an instructor at the Justice Department’s National Advocacy Center. Dan graduated from Northwestern University School of Law, and previously practiced with law firms in Boston, Washington, D.C. and Charleston, SC, as well as the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dan is co-author of the law school casebook “Autism and the Law,” and has presented on legal topics pertaining to autism at numerous conferences and trainings including the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association, the Autism Society of America, the Autism Law Summit, the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, ABAI, and the Council on Autism Services. Dan is the 2020 recipient of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board’s Michael Hemingway Behavior Analysis Award for his work in developing public policy related to behavior analysis and increasing access to behavior-analytic services.
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.